THE FACULTY
PERHAPS it's the Kennedy physical-fitness influence. Faculty members recently received an invitation from the DCAC's Seaver Peters '54 that read like this: "Some of you have been clamoring for some exercise, so beginning Nov. 6 we will commence weekly volleyball games for all interested. We will plan to do this every Wednesday night until Spring Fever hits us or until we are all in perfect shape."
A small but enthusiastic group appeared for this initial workout, Mr. Peters reported.
FRANK SMALLWOOD '51, Assistant Professor of Government, will direct the opening phase of an international study of urbanization sponsored by the United Nations. He was appointed to organize and direct the study by the Institute of Public Administration in New York which is conducting the research for the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
The study will investigate governmental planning and policy making in twelve cities throughout the world: Leningrad, Cairo, Paris, Toronto, London, San Francisco, Calcutta, Belgrade, Osaka, Lagos in Nigeria, Dakar in Senegal, and Lima, Peru.
Professor Smallwood spent the 1962- 63 academic year in London and Toronto doing research for a comparative study of metropolitan government. The results of the studies are being published in two books, Greater London: The Politics ofMetropolitan Reform, by the Bobbs-Merrill Press, and Metro Toronto: A DecadeLater, by the Canadian Bureau of Municipal Research. Professor Smallwcod had been granted a Faculty Fellowship by the College which allowed him the year off with full pay and a travel allowance. The Canada Council also supported the research.
In connection with the publication in Canada, Professor Smallwood traveled to Toronto on November 13 to address the annual meeting of the Bureau of Municipal Research. He also consulted with the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Toronto, and on November 19 he was a panelist at the annual conference of the National Municipal League in Detroit on state and local government problems.
THE 100,000th copy of Introduction toFinite Mathematics was presented to its co-authors, Professors John G. Kemeny and J. Laurie Snell, by the publishers, Prentice-Hall, Inc., at a party for faculty members and mathematics majors here. Published seven years ago, the book has become a standard text in colleges throughout the country and has been translated into Russian, French, and Japanese. Editions in Spanish, German, and possibly Italian are planned.
PROFESSOR RALPH A. BURNS of the Education Department was recently awarded the Longfellow-Bell Kulturpreiss by the West German Longfellow Gemeinshaft in Geisenheim. The medal is given for outstanding service to Germany in furthering cultural relations and has been given previously to two other Americans, John McCloy, High Commissioner, and Senator William Fulbright. The award is named for the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who once lived in the Geisenheim area and wrote of the bell of the Geisenheim Cathedral. The city has become headquarters for German students and admirers of the poet.
Professor Burns was the guest of the society and of Geisenheim's mayor, Dr. Hermann Wandersleb.
Professor Burns served as chief education specialist for the U.S. Military Government in Occupied Germany after World War II and was director of the Exchanges Program for the U.S. High Commission. The latter program brought more than 10,000 Germans to America to study and observe democracy in action. He also negotiated the Fulbright Agreement between Germany and the United States.
This is his second award from Germany. In 1960 he was decorated with the Order of Merit of the West German Republic of Bonn.
PROFESSORS LEONARD M. RIESER '44 and Walter Stockmayer attended the 100th anniversary meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington's Constitution Hall. Deputy Provost Rieser represented the College; Professor Stockmayer is a member of the Academy. President Kennedy addressed the gathering.
SECOND faculty visitor of the fall from the American Universities Field Staff was Louis Dupree, an expert in the Islamic areas of Southern Asia, especially Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mr. Dupree met with various classes in several departments and with campus organizations formally and informally to discuss these areas.
AMONG recent grants to faculty members for research was one to David C. Nutt '41, Research Associate in Geography. His $21,600 National Science Foundation grant is for a two-year study of the physical oceanography of Baffin Bay, which lies between Greenland and Baffin Island.
Mr. Nutt's work will consist mainly of organizing and assessing existing data and literature, but he has found a unique source of new information. A large ice island broke off from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in 1961-62 and is drifting south about ten miles a day. It provides a natural drift meter and is being tracked to gain information about currents and other oceanographic phenomena.
CHAIRMEN for the 31 academic departments for the coming year have been appointed. The departments and their chairmen are:
ART, Hugh Morrison (Robert Poor, acting chairman, winter term); BIOGRAPHY, Donald Bartlett; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, John Copenhaver; CHEMISTRY, Walter Stock-mayer; CLASSICS, Matthew Wiencke (Norman Doenges, acting chairman, winter and spring terms); COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, Vernon Hall; ECONOMICS, Lawrence Hines; EDUCATION, Ralph Burns (acting); ENGINEERING SCIENCE, Myron Tribus; ENGLISH, Harold Bond; GEOGRAPHY, Van English; GEOLOGY, Robert Decker; GERMAN, Edward McCormick; GOVERNMENT, Henry Ehrmann; HISTORY, Herbert Hill (John Adams, acting chairman, spring term); INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Richard Sterling; MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY, John Kemeny; MATHEMATICS AND SOCIAL SCIHNCES, Victor McGee; Music, Paul Zeller (Milton Gill, acting chairman, spring term); PHILOSOPHY, Timothy Duggan; PHYSICS, Robert Christy; PSYCHOLOGY, William Smith; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Frank Smallwood; RELIGION, wed Berthold (Robin Scroggs, acting chairman for year); ROMANCE LANGUAGES, George Diller; RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION, Basil Milovsoroff; SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, Michael Choukas (Elmer Harp, vice-chairman for Anthropology) and SPEECH, John Neale.
Chairmen of the ROTC departments are: AIR SCIENCE, Lt. Col. Charles N. Barchard; MILITARY SCIENCE, Col. Joseph W.A. Whitehorne III, and NAVAL SCIENCE, Capt. Richard Parker.
Two Dartmouth faculty members were among nine scientists who participated in a two-day symposium at Wellesley on The Scope of Science. Professors John G. Kemeny of Mathematics and Wolfgang Kohler of Psychology were on a panel discussing "From Psychological Models to Mathematics." ... Dr. Robert G. Fisher, Assistant Professor of Neuro-surgery at the Medical School, was a panelist at the First Pan-American Congress of Neurology held in Lima, Peru, October 20-25. He discussed "The Relationship of Electrolyte Balance in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid." . .. The Thayer School's Professor Robert C. Dean was recently granted two patents. One for a Rock Drill was granted to him and Boris Auksmann and the other titled "Positive Steam Flow Control in Condensers" to him and Arthur Shavit. ... Another Thayer faculty member, Associate Professor Paul T. Shannon, delivered a paper entitled "An Analysis of Steady State Phenomena from the Information Theory Viewpoint" at the 51st National American Institute of Chemical Engineers at San Juan, Puerto Rico....Two Dartmouth geologists presented papers at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in New York, November 17-20. Robert C. Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Geology, discussed "Boron Content of Some Precambrian Illites" and Wilford F. Weeks, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology, discussed "Preferred Crystallo-graphic Orientation in Ice Sheets."... Professor Ernst Snapper of the Mathematics Department delivered a public lecture at Bowdoin College on "Contradictions in Mathematics."...Chemistry Department faculty members participated in the American Chemical Society's recent meeting in New York. Papers on "Dielectric Dispersion in Dilute Solutions of Polychlorostyrene and Polyethylene Oxide" and on "Intrinsic Viscosity of a Once-Broken Rod" by Professor Walter Stockmayer and H. Yu were delivered. Professor Douglas M. Bowen was chairman of a session in the Organic Chemistry Division....Dr. G. Dallenbach-Hell-weg of the Medical School presented a Scientific paper at the Second Trophoblast Conference sponsored by the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Prof. Frank Smallwood '51, who will direct the opening phase of a U.N. studyof urbanization in twelve major cities.
Ralph A. Burns, Professor of Education,delivering an address in Geisenheim,Germany, where he was signally honoredwith the Longfellow-Bell Kulturpreiss.
